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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Weekend Entertainment

January 23, 1975, Appleton Post-Crescent

There's no shortage of nostalgia on this blog and nothing tends to underscore that more than seeing the prices of entertainment from over 40 years ago. Concert tickets have risen astronomically into the hundreds of dollars for popular acts but to think you could get the choicest seats for $6.00 boggles the mind. Of course, in 1975, I was working part-time at JC Penney's in Neenah for $1.80 per hour, so even that haddock special for $2.25 was a drain on my teenage wallet!

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Menasha was carved from the northeastern Wisconsin wilderness in the late 1840s. At the confluence of the Fox River and Lake Winnebago, the town’s early entrepreneurs and industrialists sought the promise of waterpower to fuel their mills and kick-start the engine of commerce. Taming the Fox with dams, canals, and a lock, Menasha initially made its mark with flour mills and lumber-based industry. At one time, the city was home to the largest manufacturer of wood-turned products in the world. In the late 19th century, however, the tides of change once again washed upon the city and industrial focus shifted to the paper industry. What made Menasha great were dependable waterpower, plentiful rail connections to centers of commerce in Milwaukee and Chicago, and a prolific labor force that coincided with an influx of European immigrants.